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Here Comes the Miracle: Shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Anna Beecher
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
The lyrical depiction of grief in Max Porter's Grief is a Thing with Feathers meets the tender examination of different kinds of love in Sarah Winman's Tinman in this tear-jerking literary debut about a life cut short by cancer, and a love cut short by fear and social pressure.
'I adored this novel' Pandora Sykes
'Incredibly moving' Charlie Gilmour
'I read it in two evenings' Clover Stroud
'Brilliant' Sarah Moss
It begins with a miracle: a baby born too small and too early, but defiantly alive. This is Joe.
Then, two years later, Emily, arrives. From the beginning, the siblings' lives are entwined.
Snake back through time. In a patch of nettle-infested wilderness, find Edward, seventeen-years-old, and falling in love with another boy.
In comes somebody else, Eleanor, with whom Edward starts a family. They find themselves grandparents to Joe and Emily.
When Joe is diagnosed with cancer, the family are left waiting for a miracle.
From one of our finest new authors, this is a profoundly beautiful novel about the unexpectedness of life and the miracle of love.
Praise for Here Comes the Miracle: Shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
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I adored this novel. Very lovely
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What a gorgeous book. Lovingly told, with a poet's eye for the small miracles to be found in each passing moment. Such light and poetic prose, at times unspeakably tender. There were so many moments I found incredibly moving
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An exceptional novel - subtle, accomplished, and powerful. It deals unflinchingly with death but also brings life, lived and unlived, tenderly and clearly into focus. I thought it was very moving.
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Anna Beecher has produced an evocation of loss and mourning that is nevertheless suffused with a sense of wonder - about the world and its objects, about different kinds of love, about the way our lives form round absences. In this quietly devastating novel, she attends, with tenderness and precision, to the details of both life and death. Here Comes the Miracle is a work of depth, sorrow, and great beauty.
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A lyrically-written tale of loss, fear and the miracle of love, which finds great significance in small things and quiet moments. Painful and beautiful.
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